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Date:      Sun, 20 Jan 2002 14:58:46 -0800
From:      Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org>
To:        Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvsup usable UTC date for tracking -stable
Message-ID:  <20020120225846.GA34004@helios.dub.net>
In-Reply-To: <B87094C5.93FA%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
References:  <20020120215731.GA21074@helios.dub.net> <B87094C5.93FA%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>

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On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 at 15:37:41 -0700, Ian wrote:
> >>>> I'm not sure what you're talking about here.  The "current"
> >>>> -STABLE branch *is* 4.5-RC2.
> >> 
> >> jim, i know.  but after release of the -rc2 iso image, -stable is
> >> more than just -rc2.
> > 
> > It's not, really.  newvers.sh doesn't even change at all (through
> > RC1, 2, etc.).  It still just says RC.
> 
> Jim, you said this on irc yesterday too, and I'm having as hard a time
> understanding it now as I did then...
> 
> If nothing changes between RC1, RC2, RC3, etc, then why is someone
> going to the trouble of making a series of ISO images and releasing
> them?  Certainly there are no major new additions of functionality,
> but something must be changing to justify the creation of a new
> release candidate?

There are changes made (not many, and as you said, not significant), but
the version in newvers.sh doesn't change.  It's the same now (RC), as it
was when the RC1 ISO was rolled (was RC then too).  The reason the ISOs
are rolled so new installs can be tested.  If you're building world, you
won't have a uname output that says FreeBSD-RC1, -RC2, -RC3, etc.  It
will still just say -RC.

As I said in another message, there are no tags put down for the various
RCs, so it's going to be hard to cvsup exactly what's been turned into
the RC ISO image(s).

- jim

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